Notre Dame Deloitte Center names new director

The University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business has named a new director for the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership (NDDCEL). Jessica McManus Warnell assumed the position of the Rex and Alice A. Martin Faculty Director as of December 1, 2022.

Jessica McManus Warnell

In this role, McManus Warnell will advance the Center’s mission of connecting research to practice in the area of ethical leadership, both for current executives and students just starting out on their career paths. The Center, founded in 2011, also seeks to become an industry-leading platform for impactful business ethics research, education and outreach.

“It is a privilege to serve in this role bridging academic scholarship and business in practice,” said McManus Warnell. “Business has unmatched potential to influence the well-being of people and communities around the world, and the Center will build on past initiatives and develop new strategies for impact as we support the mission of our College to Grow the Good in Business.”

A teaching professor in Management & Organization who first joined Notre Dame in 2000, McManus Warnell teaches courses in business ethics, sustainable business, inclusive leadership, and business and culture in Japan. Her current research explores business students’ values orientations, and community and economic recovery and resilience after disruption. She is a past recipient of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN PRME) North America Chapter Award for Teaching Excellence. She served as a visiting teaching and research fellow at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan.

“The Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership was founded as a forum to advance the understanding and implementation of ethical leadership practices in the corporate sphere, which is an important part of our mission as a business school,” said Martijn Cremers, Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Mendoza College of Business. “Jessica has a strong record of leadership in this area, and her longtime involvement in teaching and researching business ethics make her especially suited to her new role.”

A graduate of Saint Mary’s College and the University of Chicago, McManus Warnell is also a faculty fellow of Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, both located within Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. A committed proponent of diversity and inclusion, she serves as an affiliated faculty member of the Gender Studies Program, the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, the Poverty Studies Minor, the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience, and the Sustainability Minor.

McManus Warnell is the author of Engaging Millennials for Ethical Leadership: What Works for Young Professionals and Their Managers, part of the Giving Voice to Values collection of books on corporate social responsibility.

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